Edited by and containing contributions from the most respected and experienced researchers and practitioners working today, this book will be essential reading for Police Officers, researchers, students and anyone with an interest in the professionalization and contemporary contribution of forensic psychology to twenty-first century criminal investigation.

Preface: An Invented Truth and the Journey from R-v-Stagg Part 1: Professionalizing The Process Introduction 1. Taming the Beast: The UK Approach to the Management of Behavioural Investigative Advice 2. What Behavioural Investigative Advisors Actually Do? 3. BIA Support to Investigative Decision Making 4. Pragmatic solutions to offender profiling and behavioural investigative advice 5. The Cognitive Expertise of BIAs 6. The Cognitive Expertise of Geographic Profilers 7. Familial DNA Prioritisation 8. Child Pornography Offenders: Towards an Evidenced Based Approach to Prioritizing the Investigation of Indecent Image Offences Part 2: Professionalizing the Product Introduction 9. What do SIOs Want? 10. Interpreting Claims in Offender Profiles: The Role of Probability Phrases, Base-rates and Perceived Dangerousness 11. Stereotyping, Congruence and Presentation Order: Interpretative Biases in Utilizing Offender Profiles 12. An Evaluation and Comparison of Claims Made in Behavioural Investigative Advice Reports Compiled by the National Policing Improvements Agency in the United Kingdom 13. Conclusions and Next Steps